Friday: W18, M2

Training:
Night:
58 min run (easy pace, covered 7 miles)
2 min max pushups: 124 (80 in a row to start off then sets of 10) (PR)
2 min max squats: 118
2 min max 4 count flutter kicks: 87

Notes:
Very pleased with the pushup score. I have found that in order to get a higher score I have to increase my 1 set max and knock out as many as possible right off the bat. Doing high rep sets throughout the work day as breaks has really helped with improving this score. I was hoping to get greater than 120 on the squats. I did not go all the way parallel on some of these so the score is not entirely accurate. Nutrition has been pretty poor this week. Looking to turn that around this weekend. Planning on hunting most of the weekend so will have to get my runs in Saturday and Sunday in the afternoons around the morning and evening hunts.

Daily Reading:
1 Corinthians 5-8

1.) Facts:

• Paul addresses tough issues in the church of Corinth regarding sexual immorality, the laws of marriage and food sacrificed to idols. He speaks on giving up the former ways in which we used to live by fleeing from the sins that formerly entangled us and by not being a stumbling block to those weaker than us. We were washed, sanctified and justified through the blood of Christ. We are to honor God with our bodies.

2.) Lessons:

• 5:6-7 - Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
• 6:9-11 - Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• 6:18-20 - Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
• 7:19-20 - Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts. Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.
• 8:6 - yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
• 8:9-13 - Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

3.) Applications:

• Honor God with my body. Flee from the temptations that have entangled me in the past. Christ has washed, sanctified and justified me. I was bought at a price. I must realize this and embrace the fact that I am not beholden to my past sins. Christ has set me free, therefore I must honor Him with my body and honor Him by turning from those sins that have had control in the past. 
• I am placed in situations by God and I am called to honor Him in those situations by keeping His commands. 
• I must live my life as if in a glass house. Whether I like it our not my actions are being viewed by others and impact how others live their lives. If my actions lead another to sin than I am being a stumbling block to them and am keeping them from Christ. If this is the case than I am called to change my ways and do what will not cause them to fall. It is a sin to lead others to destruction and to lead others away from Christ. This is something of the utmost importance and is something that that needs work in my life. I must be willing to sacrifice my own wants and desires if they are causing someone else to sin. As a follower of Christ I am called to be different from the world and to live a life worthy of the calling of Christ. My actions either bring others closer to Christ or lead them farther away... Which is it? This is a day by day, minute by minute decision impacting how I live my every day life. 

4.) Daily Meditation:

• 8:9 - do not become a stumbling block to the weak

Thursday: W18, M2

Training:


90 min ruck (40lb pack, moderate pace)


Daily Reading:
1 Corinthians 1-4


1.) Facts:

• Paul is writing this letter to the church in Corinth. He immediately starts off by addressing divisions in the church over leaders and states that wisdom is not found through man but through the Spirit of God. The foundation of the church must be Jesus Christ and everyone has a role to play in the building of it. Some are called to sow and some are called to reap, each and every job is important because the church needs to be unified and work as the body of Christ. The nature of true apostleship is humbling ourselves in the sight of God and others and giving ourselves completely over to will of God.

2.) Lessons:

• 1:17 - For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
• 1:25 - For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
• 2:11 - For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
• 3:7-9 - So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
• 4:3 - I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court
• 4:16 - Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

3.) Applications:

• Everyone has a job in the body of Christ. Some are called to reap and some are called to sow. Each is important as they further the kingdom of God. Do not be wise in your own eyes, for the wisdom of this world is foolishness compared to God's surpassing greatness. We are called to humble ourselves and seek to do the will of God. Our singular purpose must be to plant and grow and be co-workers in Gods field. 

4.) Daily Meditation:

• 3:7-9 - So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.